Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 704 439 816
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 11.10% 14.18% 11.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.61% 51.95% 45.06%
Number of salaries quoted 362 323 724
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,469 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £94,625 £72,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,419 845 1,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 22.38% 27.29% 26.14%
Number of salaries quoted 848 613 1,518
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,988 £79,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 23 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +2 171 £38,750 -13.89% 27
Hertfordshire 0 165 £60,000 +9.09% 61
Cambridgeshire -3 148 £51,500 +8.42% 36
Suffolk +34 103 £46,370 -7.26% 10
Norfolk +1 86 £55,000 +58.20% 22
Bedfordshire 0 29 £34,000 -35.85% 23
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 85 (12.07%) SharePoint
2 38 (5.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.70%) WordPress
4 8 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.85%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) SAS
7 2 (0.28%) Confluence
7 2 (0.28%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 72 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.85%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.28%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.28%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.28%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.28%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 165 (23.44%) Microsoft 365
2 131 (18.61%) Power Platform
3 116 (16.48%) Azure AI
4 100 (14.20%) Entra ID
5 85 (12.07%) AWS
6 68 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (5.97%) OneDrive
8 39 (5.54%) PowerApps
9 35 (4.97%) Power Automate
10 33 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 33 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 24 (3.41%) GitHub
12 21 (2.98%) GCP
13 19 (2.70%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 18 (2.56%) SaaS
15 15 (2.13%) IaaS
16 14 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
17 13 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
18 12 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 65 (9.23%) Firewall
2 39 (5.54%) DNS
3 38 (5.40%) VPN
4 26 (3.69%) DHCP
5 20 (2.84%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.99%) WAN
7 13 (1.85%) Internet
8 12 (1.70%) VoIP
9 11 (1.56%) LAN
10 9 (1.28%) VLAN
10 9 (1.28%) Wireless
11 7 (0.99%) Broadband
12 6 (0.85%) Network Security
13 5 (0.71%) DMZ
13 5 (0.71%) MQTT
14 4 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
14 4 (0.57%) WLAN
15 3 (0.43%) SSL
16 2 (0.28%) L2TP
16 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (16.48%) Power BI
2 94 (13.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 73 (10.37%) Tableau
4 48 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 28 (3.98%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.85%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.99%) MySQL
10 6 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.85%) Looker
10 6 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.57%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.43%) Big Data
12 3 (0.43%) Metadata
12 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (1.99%) Git
1 14 (1.99%) JIRA
2 6 (0.85%) MLflow
3 5 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.28%) Selenium
4 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.28%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.14%) ERwin
5 1 (0.14%) git-flow
5 1 (0.14%) JMeter
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
5 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.14%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 369 (52.41%) Social Skills
2 77 (10.94%) Finance
3 33 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.13%) Law
5 16 (2.27%) Marketing
6 15 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.13%) Public Sector
7 13 (1.85%) Legal
7 13 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.42%) Retail
9 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.85%) Advertising
10 6 (0.85%) Multimedia
11 5 (0.71%) Banking
12 4 (0.57%) Games
12 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.57%) Music Industry
12 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 166 (23.58%) Analyst
2 131 (18.61%) Junior
3 129 (18.32%) Junior Analyst
4 128 (18.18%) Developer
5 84 (11.93%) IT Support
6 70 (9.94%) Security Analyst
7 66 (9.38%) Data Analyst
8 65 (9.23%) .NET Developer
9 64 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 64 (9.09%) Junior Data Analyst
9 64 (9.09%) Junior Security Analyst
10 60 (8.52%) Ethical Hacker
10 60 (8.52%) Senior
11 44 (6.25%) IT Engineer
12 41 (5.82%) Support Engineer
13 39 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
14 32 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
14 32 (4.55%) Lead
14 32 (4.55%) Network Engineer
15 31 (4.40%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (13.35%) .NET
2 83 (11.79%) .NET Core
3 73 (10.37%) CSS
4 64 (9.09%) HTML
5 63 (8.95%) ASP.NET
6 62 (8.81%) ASP.NET Core
7 35 (4.97%) RESTful
8 30 (4.26%) React
9 29 (4.12%) Entity Framework
10 27 (3.84%) Node.js
11 26 (3.69%) ML.NET
12 22 (3.13%) HTML5 Canvas
12 22 (3.13%) JSON
13 20 (2.84%) Blazor
14 19 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
14 19 (2.70%) SPFx
15 18 (2.56%) AngularJS
16 16 (2.27%) REST
16 16 (2.27%) Vue
17 14 (1.99%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.52%) Cyberattack
2 37 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.69%) Driving Licence
4 18 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.85%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.14%) Product Ownership
10 7 (0.99%) Clustering
10 7 (0.99%) Robotics
11 6 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (0.85%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.85%) Digital TV
11 6 (0.85%) iPhone
11 6 (0.85%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.85%) PKI
11 6 (0.85%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 123 (17.47%) Windows
2 77 (10.94%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
4 16 (2.27%) Linux
5 15 (2.13%) Android
6 10 (1.42%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.71%) VMS
9 4 (0.57%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (29.69%) Cybersecurity
2 176 (25.00%) AI
3 124 (17.61%) Mentoring
4 119 (16.90%) Business Intelligence
5 111 (15.77%) Agile
6 96 (13.64%) DevOps
7 76 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
8 74 (10.51%) CI/CD
9 67 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
10 62 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (8.52%) Ethical Hacking
12 58 (8.24%) Machine Learning
13 41 (5.82%) Roadmaps
14 38 (5.40%) Computer Science
15 35 (4.97%) Project Management
15 35 (4.97%) User Experience
16 33 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 33 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
17 32 (4.55%) Customer Service
17 32 (4.55%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 221 (31.39%) SQL
2 136 (19.32%) Python
3 128 (18.18%) C#
4 61 (8.66%) JavaScript
5 53 (7.53%) PowerShell
6 37 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.55%) PHP
8 15 (2.13%) Java
9 10 (1.42%) C++
10 8 (1.14%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.99%) R
12 3 (0.43%) Bash
12 3 (0.43%) Bicep
12 3 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.43%) Ruby
13 2 (0.28%) Scala
14 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 262 (37.22%) Azure Certification
2 71 (10.09%) CompTIA Security+
3 67 (9.52%) Degree
4 65 (9.23%) CompTIA CySA+
5 60 (8.52%) CEH
6 40 (5.68%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (4.97%) Security Cleared
9 34 (4.83%) CCNA
10 28 (3.98%) Network+ Certification
11 27 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (2.98%) SC Cleared
13 9 (1.28%) DV Cleared
14 8 (1.14%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.99%) CCNP
15 7 (0.99%) CISSP
16 6 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.85%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.57%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.84%) GDPR
1 20 (2.84%) QA
1 20 (2.84%) SLA
2 16 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.85%) NIST
5 11 (1.56%) GRC
6 8 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.14%) NCSC
7 7 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.85%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.57%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.57%) PMO
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.14%) IFRS
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 118 (16.76%) Active Directory
2 31 (4.40%) Hyper-V
3 28 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.70%) Docker
5 16 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.85%) vSphere
8 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 46 (6.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.98%) Terraform
4 9 (1.28%) Ansible
5 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.57%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.57%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.43%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 507 (72.02%) Microsoft
2 148 (21.02%) ForeScout
3 46 (6.53%) Cisco
4 33 (4.69%) VMware
5 24 (3.41%) Apple
6 19 (2.70%) Adobe
7 18 (2.56%) Databricks
8 15 (2.13%) Google
9 12 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.56%) Meraki
11 10 (1.42%) SolarWinds
11 10 (1.42%) Veeam
12 9 (1.28%) Epicor
13 8 (1.14%) SAP
14 7 (0.99%) Facebook
14 7 (0.99%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.85%) Aruba
15 6 (0.85%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.85%) Dell
16 5 (0.71%) Salesforce